Table 6. Average incomes earned in Letseng-la-Letsie and Mfuleni and their relative dependency upon the wetlands.
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Letseng-la-Letsie |
Mfuleni |
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Average annual income in area (U.S. $) |
886 |
2765 |
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Population density (people/km²) |
66 |
1600 |
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Human Development Index |
0.549† |
0.76‡ |
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Percentage of households using wetland |
65 |
12.8 |
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Average annual income of wetland users (U.S. $) |
826 |
2454 |
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Average annual income from wetlands (U.S. $) |
66 |
2003 |
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Percentage of income of wetland users from wetlands |
8.0 |
81.6 |
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†UNDP (2007)
‡Statistics South Africa (2001b)
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